New devices impress, but leave something to be desired in each case
posted by vivek pal in Tech Updates
On Tuesday press event at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada Sony Corp. (TYO:6758) highlighted its work on 4K video (including collaborations with Google Inc.'s (GOOG) YouTube and Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)). Sony Electronics President Mike Fasulo showed a lot of things including Alpha-series mirrorless, lightweight d-SLR designs, waterproof electronics, and a second generation 4K videocam. Most of this was a recap of what we've seen in recent weeks/months.
But Sony Electronics did have a little suprise up its sleeve.
I. The Z1 Compact --Beautiful, Yet Flawed
It expanded its Xperia smartphone lineup to include two new U.S. geared models. The first, the Xperia Z1 compact is a downsized and degraded version of the Z1. Sony Mobile president Kunimasa Suzuki comments:
We've taken the power of the Xperia Z1 and we have made it smaller without compromising on features. The Xperia Z1 Compact houses all of the power of the flagship Z1.
Well, not exactly. Here's the spec of the mini phone:
But Sony Electronics did have a little suprise up its sleeve.
I. The Z1 Compact --Beautiful, Yet Flawed
It expanded its Xperia smartphone lineup to include two new U.S. geared models. The first, the Xperia Z1 compact is a downsized and degraded version of the Z1. Sony Mobile president Kunimasa Suzuki comments:
We've taken the power of the Xperia Z1 and we have made it smaller without compromising on features. The Xperia Z1 Compact houses all of the power of the flagship Z1.
Well, not exactly. Here's the spec of the mini phone:
- Form Factor
- Size: 127 x 64.9 x 9.5 mm (5.00 x 2.55 x 0.374 in.)
- Weight: 137 g (4.83 oz)
- OS
- Android 4.3 Jelly Bean (upgradeable to 4.4 "Kit Kat" at a later date)
- Launch Window
- EU: Mid-February
- U.S.: ??
- Launch Price (unlocked)
- Colors
- Black
- White
- Luscious Pink
- Lime Green
- Yellow
- Red
- Hardware
- Screen
- 20.7 MP (fixed-focus)
- Carl Zeiss optics f/2.0
- 1/2.3-inch sensor
- 1080p video @ 30 fps
- LED flash
- Screen
- SoC
- Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) Snapdragon 800
- MSM8974
- 2.2 GHz
- 4 cores
- Krait 400 core design
- Adreno 330 GPU
- Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) Snapdragon 800
- RAM
- 2 GB
- Battery
- 2,300mAh lithium-ion
- Storage
- Internal:16 GB
- External: MicroSDHC, up to 64 GB
- Camera(s)
- Rear
- 20.7 MP (fixed-focus)
- Carl Zeiss optics f2.0
- LED flash
- 1080p video @ 30 fps
- Front-facing
- 2 MP
- Rear
- Wireless/Cellular
- 4G LTE
- NFC
- A-GPS+GLONASS
- FM Radio
- Bluetooth: v4.0 LE
- WiFi/WLAN: 2.4/5Ghz a/b/g/n
- Sensors
- accelerometer
- multi-touch input
- proximity sensor
- Other
- IP55/58 water and dust resistance
